《Dawn of Fame The Career of Stanley G Weinbaum》作者： - Sam Moskowitz【EPUB

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DAWN OF FAME: The Career of Stanley G. Weinbaum By SAM MOSKOWITZ The economic blackness of the Depression hung like a pall over the spirit of America. The year was 1934 and even though many may have desired the temporary escape which science fiction provided, they frequently could not afford to purchase more than a monthly magazine or two. In such an atmosphere, publishers of the three surviving science fiction magazines competed desperately for a diminishing pool of readers. Wonder Stories, Hugo Gernsback's current venture in an exclusively science fiction magazine, gave preference to stories with new ideas and unusual approaches to the worlds of tomorrow. In this, it was joined in grim competition with Astounding Stories. This magazine, after a nine-month lapse in 1933, had been purchased by Street & Smith, and it also featured new and startling ideas, labeling its most unorthodox